| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Relocatable installs |
| Date: | 2004-05-18 21:47:24 |
| Message-ID: | 200405182147.i4ILlOi25080@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
> > Boy, nobody was suggesting 100% static linking. What kind of madness
> > are you getting into if you link libpq.a into psql? There is
> > something between all or nothing, isn't there?
>
> It's not going to be only psql and libpq. The next thing is, someone
> wants to have a relocatable libpqxx, or a relocatable PHP, or a
> relocatable MyCoolReplicationSystem. Before you know it, half the
> world has the other half of the world statically linked. This can't be
> the solution.
So your opinion is that we need to just require some user configuration
changes to find the shared libs, right?
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